Software Engineer – DevOps Platform

The role

You will blend Linux system administration and software engineering to build and maintain infrastructure and core services in data centers and the cloud. The team automates infrastructure operations so engineers can build and own their systems end-to-end.

What you will do

• Maintain core infrastructure by writing software to automate application deployment, configure infrastructure and manage critical services such as databases.
• Keep mission critical services reliable by triaging and fixing operational issues in Linux environments as an on-call engineer.
• Take part in post-mortems and implement improvements to prevent future issues.
• Design, implement and deploy internal tools and services to speed up the wider Engineering team and enable direct ownership of operations.
• Help manage server hardware in physical data centers, which may include occasional travel to the Bay Area or New Jersey data centers.
• Be involved in key decisions about how the infrastructure evolves.

Required qualifications

• A BS or MS in Computer Science or an Engineering field
• Experience running and troubleshooting modern Linux systems and services in production
• 2+ years of experience developing reliable production-grade software in Java, Go or similar languages
• Proficiency with at least one automation technology such as Terraform, Chef or Puppet
• Experience designing and deploying mission-critical complex distributed systems
• Excellent critical thinking and communication skills, with a desire to learn from and educate peers

Benefits

• Medical, vision and dental coverage
• 401K plan
• Generous time off
• Parental leave
• Wellness reimbursements
• Professional development
• Employee investing discount
• 1:1 mentor during onboarding
• Weekly 1:1s and bi-annual reviews

About the company

Wealthfront's mission is to create a financial system that favors people, not institutions, using technology to build low-cost, easy-to-use financial products. It has over 1.5 million funded clients and more than $100 billion in client assets on its platform.